The RoPS Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at RoPS
Finn Heiserholt and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Arttu Tulehmo
RoPS asked and KTP said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
Juho Arajuuri steps up from the RoPS academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Juho Arajuuri has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Rasmus Kamara steps up from the RoPS academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rasmus Kamara has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Joni Granlund steps up from the RoPS academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Joni Granlund has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
RoPS promote Lukas Ojala from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lukas Ojala has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Aapo Savolainen makes it 100
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Kimi Isometsä
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The form table has caught Srdjan Šotra
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
In brief
- The dugout Rasmus Jensen: “We have to be better”
- Match Point won or two lost for RoPS?
- Squad Srdjan Šotra remains an outsider